The atmosphere often felt bleak in a country that had no formal rights of free speech and worship, where homosexuality was illegal, and where migrant workers were kept out of most channels of Qatari life. It is not within any university’s ability in any country to reform a society. Educators are not imperialists, but they should be personifications of civic conscience, pushing student after student to question the rules of the world in which they live.
Acts of courage through critical thought are what U.S. colleges should aspire to when they go abroad ― progress that we can’t expect to be realized without some ugliness and struggle. Full story
